Christian Archibald Herter (physician)

Christian Archibald Herter ( born September 3, 1865 in Glenville, Connecticut, † December 5, 1910 ) was an American physician and pathologist. He was co-founder of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Herter in 1885 received his doctorate at Columbia University. He then continued his studies at Johns Hopkins University under William Henry Welch and Auguste -Henri Forel in Zurich.

In 1897 he was appointed Professor of Pathological Chemistry at the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. In 1903 he became Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Columbia University.

Writings

• The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Nervous System: A Manual for Students and Practitioners. Putnam 's, New York and London, 1892.
• Lectures on Chemical Pathology in its Relation to Practical Medicine. Smith, Elder & Co., Philadelphia 1902.
• The Influence of Pasteur on medical science. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1904.
• The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications Arising from Them '. Macmillan, New York, in 1907.
• On Infantilism from Chronic Intestinal Infection. Macmillan, New York, 1908.
• Imagination and Idealism in the Medical Sciences. American Medical Association., 1910.
• Biological Aspects of Human problem. Macmillan, New York, 1911.